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| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Mixed group, mostly children, having a picnic in the woods, perhaps connected with the dedication of the East Blue Mounds Lutheran Church. |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Interior view of church from the rear towards the altar, probably Luther Valley Church, originally built in 1863. A steeple was added in the 1870s. The alt... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | View down road towards the exterior of a large brick church with a stone foundation, belfry and steeple. A group of people stand in front of the white boar... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | View of the McFarland Lutheran church and cemetery. The church was started in 1869 and in use in 1873. It was dedicated on January 23, 1876. The church w... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of a well-dressed young man. |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | People in carriage in front of picket fence, wagons and people behind; large frame house with parapet roof, Corinthian porch columns, brackets at roof; car... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Portrait of two unidentified children holding hands while posing on homemade fancy chairs. The girl is dressed in a hand-me-down dress cut from a heavy woo... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | A view of the interior of the Wisconsin State Capitol dome, from the series "The Beauties of Madison and Surroundings." |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of University of Wisconsin students, perhaps a graduating class, on the lawn in front of Main Hall (later Bascom Hall). |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of the young Andreas Larsen Dahl taken in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway, before he immigrated to the United States in 1869. Dahl was born ... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A head and shoulders portrait of James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States, 1857-1861. Buchanan was born in Cove Gap near Mercersburg, Pennsylva... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of Fred D. Grant, son of Ulysses S. Grant, at 15 years of age, standing near a chair in front of a painted backdrop dressed in ... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | In April of 1860 Hölzlhuber took the railway from Milwaukee to Lake Horicon to visit the small town that was developing on its shore. Since the settlers we... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | In his journal Hölzlhuber described his departure from Milwaukee. "I spent the last night from May 3rd to 4th, 1860, upon the ocean steamer Milwaukee |
| Date: | 04 1860 |
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| Description: | Accompanying this sketch is Hölzlhuber's description of his last foray from Milwaukee before leaving America. "Before my return to Europe, D. Brandis, the ... |
| Date: | 10 31 1861 |
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| Description: | Commemorative roster of Company G of the 12th regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Elevated illustration of the Lawrence College Campus with snow on the ground. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a Methodist Church with a lawn, trees and a fence. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Detail (central image) of "The Southern Prisons of U.S. Officers" showing Camp Asylum in South Carolina. |
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